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by mc3 2396 days ago
I think Electron is popular because you can hire web devs to make a desktop product. With JS you can write code that runs on your server (NodeJS) desktop (Electron), browser and mobile app (Cordova). It's not a great experience but it is good for rapid development, easier hiring of skills (just need some web devs!) and the code reuse might be helpful for bug reduction.
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ajxs 2396 days ago
> you can hire web devs to make a desktop product

This is a bug, not a feature.

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buboard 2396 days ago
Its also slow and bloated. You get what you pay for
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pmoleri 2396 days ago
Bloated, yes. Slow, no. You start at a not so low binary size and memory footprint, but that's it. VS Code is an awesome IDE built on electron and it's really snappy.
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weberc2 2396 days ago
VS Code has not been snappy for me. Especially with large screen sizes and lots of widegets. For example, if I close the left-hand pane and shrink the window, performance improves considerably.
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mc3 2395 days ago
Not nearly as snappy as notepad++/sublime, which are in turn not as snappy as Vim.
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